How much would you pay for a driver?

pauldj42 said:
Snelly didn't say his fishing rod was special built or specifically made for him, he said it was exquistley beautiful and timeless.
If he'd of bought it as an investment, then I totally get it, just like investing in some Golf memorabilla, but he used it and it made no difference, therefore, he bought a fishing rod for a grand and it didn't improve his fishing, why even risk using it if you intended to pass it onto your children? I've no reason to doubt him, but maybe by claiming it's exquistly beautiful and timeless is the only way he can put his mind at rest spending so much on a piece of fishing gear that didn't help.
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i guarantee it was custom built for a grand! how many fish you catch doesn't justify the expense of the rod. i have very expensive fishing rods and they do nothing to catch me more fish. the same way a farari doesn't get you to work any different to a vauxhall. one is just a much nicer car to drive. they both give you the same outcome.
 
pauldj42 said:
Snelly didn't say his fishing rod was special built or specifically made for him, he said it was exquistley beautiful and timeless.
If he'd of bought it as an investment, then I totally get it, just like investing in some Golf memorabilla, but he used it and it made no difference, therefore, he bought a fishing rod for a grand and it didn't improve his fishing, why even risk using it if you intended to pass it onto your children? I've no reason to doubt him, but maybe by claiming it's exquistly beautiful and timeless is the only way he can put his mind at rest spending so much on a piece of fishing gear that didn't help.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder anyway. I'm sure a few people on here think their driver is beautiful and timeless as well. :D
 
hovis said:
i guarantee it was custom built for a grand! how many fish you catch doesn't justify the expense of the rod. i have very expensive fishing rods and they do nothing to catch me more fish. the same way a farari doesn't get you to work any different to a vauxhall. one is just a much nicer car to drive. they both give you the same outcome.
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I'm more inclined to think it wasn't custom built and was more likely a vintage rod, custom built items don't tend to hold the value.

So somebody going for a custom Driver fitting costing xx amount is seen as possibly gullible etc, but they may have the exact same feeling holding that Driver as the person holding the fishing rod, and I have no issue with either person, just think it's wrong for one of them to critisize the other.
 
I spent £509 on my Titleist 915 custom fitted with a Graphite Design shaft which was a £175 uplift. It's the same shaft that Tiger uses although I'm better off the tee than he is :D The reason I paid that much is that I was able to get a brand new M1 via a friend at staff price (£90!!) which I didn't get on with and sold on the bay for a couple of hundred quid profit so that part financed the 915. Would I have ordinarily spent >£500......in a word, no.

What people spend their disposable income on is entirely up to them. I just don't get why people spend £8 every day on a packet of fags. 3 months worth of that is a very nice brand new set of irons. If someone came on here and said they buy a new set of £700 irons every 3 months there would be a load of people questioning his sanity but nobody blinks twice when someone says they smoke 20 a day. I don't smoke and drink very little so a lot of my disposable income gets spent on my hobbies.


Now, anyone know any good deals just now on a set of Muiras? :whistle:
 
pauldj42 said:
I'm more inclined to think it wasn't custom built and was more likely a vintage rod, custom built items don't tend to hold the value.

So somebody going for a custom Driver fitting costing xx amount is seen as possibly gullible etc, but they may have the exact same feeling holding that Driver as the person holding the fishing rod, and I have no issue with either person, just think it's wrong for one of them to critisize the other.
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no, no. fishermen are gullible too!
 
It was this....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HARDY-COM...655802?hash=item23806062fa:g:y78AAOSw4A5Yzmfy

I bought it in 2002 and it has given me hours of pleasure and been all over the world with me. It is a hand-made, travel fly rod, top quality reel and associated leather travel cases for all the components.

I would never sell it and it will be my son or daughters when I am too old to go fly fishing anymore. It is no longer in production and to every fly fisherman that has ever seen it, a really lovely thing to own.

In my view, it is not really comparable to the latest driver that will be replaced within a year or two.

I wish I hadn't mentioned it - not a very good example to illustrate my point anyway.
 
GeeJay said:
On the other hand if someone else wants to play with the latest super duper magic wand and is happy to fork out for the privilege, good luck to them. I hope they enjoy their purchase.
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Agreed. My issue is with someone saying they have done it because it will improve their golf. It won't.
 
I'm off to St Ives at the end of the month to get CF'd for a new driver and 3 wood.
Using my club pro's stock of shafts I added distance off the tee using the 917 against my 915 driver, but his opinion was that the expert fitters, with all the correct stock, could get even more distance out of the club. Without reducing spin to the extent that I lose all control (like happened with my SLDR).
So if they can add significant distance I will buy the club, no matter the cost.

I recently advised a friend look at either 2nd hand Ping/Tm clubs or new Benross, MD GOlf or Tour Edge clubs, as he wanted something suitable but not too expensive - he has a wife and kids, whereas I don't!

Value for money is an entirely personal thing.
 
Snelly said:
It was this....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HARDY-COM...655802?hash=item23806062fa:g:y78AAOSw4A5Yzmfy

I bought it in 2002 and it has given me hours of pleasure and been all over the world with me. It is a hand-made, travel fly rod, top quality reel and associated leather travel cases for all the components.

I would never sell it and it will be my son or daughters when I am too old to go fly fishing anymore. It is no longer in production and to every fly fisherman that has ever seen it, a really lovely thing to own.

In my view, it is not really comparable to the latest driver that will be replaced within a year or two.

I wish I hadn't mentioned it - not a very good example to illustrate my point anyway.
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Absolutely is a thing of beauty and quality. :thup:

Regardless of cost, as you say it's given you hours of pleasure and to me that's the most important part.
 
OMG did I read that right £1000 on a bit of a wooden stick, could have given you some old branch that had fallen off a tree and saved you the money :lol:

Spend whatever you like on whatever you like, I personally think, as whom am I to judge what you spend your money on.

Had a good old chuckle at this thread, cheers to bringing a smile to my face:thup:
 
DarrenWilliams said:
OMG did I read that right £1000 on a bit of a wooden stick, could have given you some old branch that had fallen off a tree and saved you the money :lol:

Spend whatever you like on whatever you like, I personally think, as whom am I to judge what you spend your money on.

Had a good old chuckle at this thread, cheers to bringing a smile to my face:thup:
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Fully endorse this view, Darren!

I recently purchased an expensive nice new shiny and am very pleased with it. It goes a bit further than the old one and is a bit straighter - that's my story and I'm sticking to it. I did spend a while testing the current market options as a driver has to last me ~5 yrs and this came out best for me with a 23 yard improvement on my old one (a mean calculated from 30 shots for those of a statistical bent) but it's no guarantee to help whatsoever. It is VERY shiny though. I'd imagine Ken Brown's putting book I'm currently reading would be much better value at improving my lot but it's not very macho...

All said, I still love the thing and look forward to every shot with it. I am lucky enough to have made the purchase following a recent share sale and after making a nice contribution to jr's university fund and a little something for the wonderful and patient Mrs C I was able to treat myself. It was indulgent and won't help anyone else in the world but I'm not perfect and ok with it on a basic level.
 
clubchamp98 said:
This
i paid £1000 for my guitar but it will last me for life.
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I know what you mean.

I've had a Gibson Les Paul Standard since 2002. It was a lot more expensive than the excellent Epiphone Les Paul it replaced.

The Gibson didn't make me a better guitarist. It is a better instrument though. It feels great, has excellent tone, is still worth at least what I paid for it which is irrelevant as I will keep it forever.

In 2015 I bought a Taylor 414CE, a lot more expensive than the Simon & Patrick that I've had and enjoyed for 20-yrs. Again the Taylor is a much better instrument. My playing standard doesn't really warrant me having it, but I enjoy playing it very much.
 
I think the issue here is sentiment, and what people attach it too. Whether it be watches, guitars, fly fishing rods or golf clubs.
　
I get what Snelly is saying as its hard for me to attach sentiment to a £400 TM M1 driver in the knowledge that i'm not going to have it forever and it's not really improve my game. However, I can to a watch that irrespective of the cost I wouldn't sell for 100 times what its worth. That said, people are free to spend their hard earned on whatever they wish, for whatever reason they wish, so crack on .....It's not that I have ever wasted money on golf clubs before :rofl:
 
Golf is a leisure activity so what anyone chooses to spend is going to vary - no-one has any right to question the amount a fellow golfer spends.

If it's down to cash stay indoors.
 
To the original OP, I'd pay what I like for a driver. Bugger what anyone else says.

I remember paying £600-odd for a Precision Golf custom driver around 6 years ago. Madness most said. I've still got it and love it. In the meantime, I bet there's many who have changed drivers mulitple times in this period, continually buying last year's model at a reduced rate, but over the time, probably spending in total a lot more than I did! :p
 
I tried the epic sub zero over my x2hot, brought my spin and flight down but the shaft was also 10 grams heavier in the epic so that will have done more than the face. Was about 13 yards difference, is it worth 400 quid for that? Not so sure yet
 
Snelly said:
It was this....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HARDY-COM...655802?hash=item23806062fa:g:y78AAOSw4A5Yzmfy

I bought it in 2002 and it has given me hours of pleasure and been all over the world with me. It is a hand-made, travel fly rod, top quality reel and associated leather travel cases for all the components.

I would never sell it and it will be my son or daughters when I am too old to go fly fishing anymore. It is no longer in production and to every fly fisherman that has ever seen it, a really lovely thing to own.

In my view, it is not really comparable to the latest driver that will be replaced within a year or two.

I wish I hadn't mentioned it - not a very good example to illustrate my point anyway.
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Good for you, as an angler too I can relate to this, and in fact there are similarities between angling and golf in terms of equipment - indeed certain types of gear do help catch more, in the same way as certain clubs make golf slightly easier.

If you are a match angler then the gear you need would be probably 3 times the cost of a set of good clubs. A 14 metre pole, which is a necessity to compete in most matches, starts at around £500 for an entry level model with most good ones between £1500-2000 and top end closer to £5k.

Difference however, is that winning matches can pay good returns unlike golf, although the costs are higher as there are far more "disposable/renewable" items unlike golf where it is generally only balls and maybe gloves that need regular replacement.
 
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